In the latest TV ratings, NBC’s broadcast of the NFL Wild Card game between the Browns and Steelers dominated Sunday primetime with 21.5 million total viewers and a 6.3 demo rating. Elsewhere: CBS | Leading out of other Wild Card football (and pending adjustment due to overrun), 60 Minutes drew its best numbers since Nov. […]
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The Rookie Season 3 Premiere: Is Nolan’s Career Kaput? ‘We Need to Honor This Punishment,’ Says EP
RELATED STORIES The Rookie‘s Season 3 premiere ended with John Nolan sweeping up plaster dust at his home. But whether he can clean up the mess he made of his career remains to be seen. The new season picked up right where the last one ended, with sirens wailing outside Nolan’s home just as he […]
Burden of Truth’s Peter Mooney Talks Finale’s Flash-Forward, Season 4 Renewal Odds and Rookie Blue Reunion
RELATED STORIES Warning: The following contains major spoilers for Thursday’s Burden of Truth. Proceed at your own risk! The biggest question facing Burden of Truth‘s Joanna and Billy following the Season 3 finale: Will the partners, in life and in work, be back for another season? Even if the import — which as of Thursday […]
Will The Rookie Season 3 Bring Lucy/ Tim Romance? Showrunner Warns That Would Be a ‘Huge Line’ to Cross
The dynamic between The Rookie‘s Officer Lucy Chen and TO Tim Bradford may have warmed up some during Season 2 of ABC’s light procedural, but that “intimacy” likely won’t segue anytime soon into romance. From go, Tim (played by Eric Winter) was a gruff, all-business TO committed to cutting his “boot” little slack, all in […]
Quotes of the Week: The Voice, H50, Walking Dead, The Rookie and More
February is officially behind us — but thanks to Leap Day, we got an extra day of delightful TV dialogue to close out the month. As is our Sunday tradition, we’ve compiled the best sound bites from the last seven days in our Quotes of the Week gallery, which recognizes comedies, dramas and unscripted series. […]
The Rookie Returns With an ‘Intense, Emotional’ Race to Save Lucy: ‘You’re Going to See Tim Lose His Mind’
RELATED STORIES For fans of The Rookie, it has been an agonizing 11 weeks since the ABC series set aside its “light procedural” label by having Officer Lucy Chen get drugged and then lobbed into the trunk of a car, at the close of a very bad first date. But this Sunday at 10/9c, the […]
Stumptown, The Rookie, Mixed-ish Snag Full-Season Pickups at ABC
RELATED STORIES ABC is the latest network to jump on the back-nine bandwagon, issuing full-season orders to freshman series Stumptown and mixed-ish as well as sophomore drama The Rookie. Although the network did not reveal the exact number of addition episodes it has commissioned for the trip, an ABC insider confirms that mixed-ish has indeed […]
The Rookie Season 2 Premiere: What Did You Think of Talia’s Send-off?
RELATED STORIES ABC’s The Rookie reported back for duty this Sunday — on a brand-new night and minus his training officer. As well reported over the summer, original cast member Afton Williamson exited the light procedural ahead of Season 2, after claiming that the handling of allegations made by her during Season 1, against a […]
Rookie Guest Star Demetrius Grosse on Being Cleared by Investigation: ‘It’s Been a Very Challenging Time’
RELATED STORIES Demetrius Grosse, who guest-starred during Season 1 of ABC’s The Rookie, says it was a “very challenging time” between when Afton Williamson publicly ID’d him in her allegations of sexual harassment and when an independent investigation this week concluded that no one named in the actress’ complaints acted “in an unlawful manner or […]
The Rookie: Afton Williamson Calls Investigation Findings ‘Heartbreaking’
RELATED STORIES Former The Rookie star Afton Williamson is responding to the news that her claims of on-set harassment have been dismissed. In an Instagram post on Tuesday, the actress said the investigation’s findings — which concluded that there was no unlawful or inappropriate behavior from the people Williamson accused — were “heartbreaking for everyone […]